Events in the year
1719
Events
January–March
* January 8 – Carolean Death March begins: A catastrophic retreat by a largely-Finnish Swedish- Carolean army under the command of Carl Gustaf Armfeldt across the Tydalen mountains in a blizzard kills aroun ...
in
Norway
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.
Incumbents
*
Monarch
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:
Frederick IV.
Events
* January – The
Carolean Death March
The Carolean Death March (), also known as the Catastrophe on Øyfjellet () was the disastrous retreat by a force of Swedish soldiers (known as Caroleans), under the command of Carl Gustaf Armfeldt, across the Tydalen mountain range in Trønd ...
.
*
Postvesenet became
state owned
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.
Births
* 31 December
Severin Leopoldus Løvenskiold, landowner (died
1776 in Denmark).
Deaths
*23 May –
Gerhard Treschow, merchant and industrial pioneer (born c. 1659).
*31 July –
Thormodus Torfæus, historian (born 1636 in Iceland).
*
Nils Engelhart, priest, pietist pioneer (born c.1668).
See also
References
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